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100 Pounds Palestine Saving Bond
| Issuer | Higher Nile Valley Authority for the Rescue of Palestine |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Size | 240 x 110 mm |
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| Obverse description | Elaborate letterpress vignette with dense arabesque guilloche border in mauve and red. A circular portrait medallion of King Farouk of Egypt is set at upper centre. Two denomination roundels reading '100 جنيه مصري' flank a central oval seal in red. The bond is presented with an attached left counterfoil separated by a perforated line. |
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| Obverse lettering | هيئة وادى النيل العليا لأنقاد فلسطين المعتمدة من وزارة الشئون الاجتماعية التوزيع الأول ١٠٠ جنيه مصري من حضرة امضاء رئيس الهيئة امضاء أمين الصندوق رقم ٠٢٢٠٥٥ |
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The Higher Nile Valley Authority for the Rescue of Palestine was one of several pan-Arab fundraising bodies that emerged in 1948 to support the Arab military effort following the end of the British Mandate. These bonds were instruments of wartime finance, not conventional banking notes — they were sold to the Egyptian public as a patriotic subscription, with redemption contingent on a political outcome that never arrived.
No record confirms the bonds were ever honored. Most surviving examples did not circulate in any commercial sense and were retained by purchasers as receipts of contribution rather than negotiable instruments.